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Pioneering surgeon Susan Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia. But a moral concern with transplants (where do donor livers come from …) led her to look further, and to ask: Could we be transplanting cells, not whole organs? At the INK Conference, she talks through her new research, discovering healing cells in some surprising places.
Interesting video with John Jacob Cannell MD executive director of the Vitamin D council. www.vitamindcouncil.org
In a new study, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used a complex computer prediction model to determine that intake of vitamin D3 and calcium would prevent 58,000 new cases …
Working with a team of physicists, Dr. Deborah Rhodes developed a new tool for tumor detection that’s 3 times as effective as traditional mammograms for women with dense breast tissue.
Employees of larger companies will see mental coverage given equal treatment with medical coverage. The effect on out-of-pocket costs is unclear.The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, by some estimates, could affect the health cover…
Atkins peaked in 2003. Detox is on the way out. Remember Macrobiotics from the 80s? What about Mediterranean eating? The Mediterranean diet was popular in the 1970s thanks to Ancel Keys. It faded for a couple decades then started a…
“Routine use of . . . LDL subfraction tests to estimate cardiovascular disease risk is premature,” according to a recent review in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Huh? What the . . . ? I’m starting to see advertisements for…
Did you know that there are better blood tests than total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol to predict future risk of heart problems such as coronary heart disease? After all, the Centers for Disease Control says that half of all heart…
A good ol’ cheap drug is just as effective as the newer, sexier, expensive drugs as a first step in controlling high blood pressure, according to investigators reporting at the annual American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, FL. Since the…
The American Heart Association offers a free, anonymous, online calculator that give you a rough idea of your chance of a heart attack or dying from heart disease over the next 10 years. That should settle the question in the…
